2018-04-12_REVISION - C1981019

• Permit No: C1981019
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 4/12/2018
• Doc Name: Application
• From: Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: SL13
• Email Name: ZTT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Colowyo Coal Company L.P.
B. Public Notice
Pursuant to the Rules and Regulation of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation
Board published August 1980, and pursuant to the Colorado Surface Coal Mining
Reclamation Act 34-33-101, et seq., notice is hereby given of the filing of an
application for Phase I Bond Release of a portion of the Colowyo Mine site. The
application pertains to the existing Colowyo Coal Mine, Permit No. C-1981-019
by Colowyo Coal Company L.P., 5731 State Highway No. 13, Meeker, Colorado
81641, filed with the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety
(CDRMS), Colorado Department of Natural Resources, 1313 Sherman Street,
Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203 and approved by the Division on April 5,
2013 (latest Permit Renewal). The Colowyo Mine is located approximately 28
miles south of Craig, Colorado.
The bond release areas applied for totals 107.51 acres that were reclaimed in 2016
and 2017. The status of the reclamation is consistent with the requirements of the
approved reclamation plan which includes backfill and regrading to the approved
post mine topography, variable topsoil depth replacement, and seeding with the
approved seed mixture on some parcels. Maps 1 and 2 of the bond release
application presents all of the reclaimed areas a. Listed below is a general legal
description of these areas:
Township 3 North, Range 93 West of the 61h P.M.
Section 3 — NWI/4 N'/2;
Section 9 — E%2;
Section 17 — NWI/4;
Section 15 — SW 1/4 NW I/4
Township 4 North, Range 93 West of the 611 P.M.
Section 13 — SE I/4 NE I/4,
Section 22 — NWI/4 SWI/4;
Section 23 — SW 1/4 NEI/4 and SEI/4;
Section 30 — NEI/4 SWI/4
Township 4 North, Range 94 West of the 611 P.M.
Section 25 —NWI/4 SEI/4
Colowyo currently holds a self -bond (Bond No. SB -011) in the amount of
$95,517,829.00. With this bond release application, the Colowyo Mine will be
requesting relinquishment of 60% of the bond held for each parcels applied for
under this application.
I The public notice indicated the application was for 107.5 acres; however, Colowyo reduced the overall
acreage being applied for prior to submitting the application.
SL -13 Phase I Bond Release Application Page 4